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Inspiration-

Ride Hailing Service Uber frequently charges us with surge pricing. And we can't know the what time we should hail a ride, to minimize the fares within a time frame. We wished to predict the surge prices at times we intend to hail a ride and use a 1 hour buffer time frame to plan our ride with minimal fares.

What it does

It uses previously housed data from Uber's estimates API collected over some period of time, to predict the surge at a particular time. It also tells you the current surge price. And it suggests you the time at which it predicts the minimal fare between 30 minutes and after 30 minutes of the time whose data has been requested. And it notify's you 10 minutes before the time when minimal price surge is expected

How we built it

Used the Uber's Surge API, with android app as the frontend and python Django server as the backend. The app sends the following data: time, day, start location, end location to the server, and the server uses Linear Ridge Regression on the housed data to predict the surge

Challenges we ran into

Deciding on which prediction model to use to predict. Not enough data was available to run our tests.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We intelligently synthesized data based on daily Uber pricing trends and successfully ran our prediction model on it. Developed an android app within 20 hours.